Get a grip Scrooge!
Re: "Easy on the Xmas spirit…", Nov. 27, Rants//Raves
Pour on the Christmas spirit! With all the doom and gloom in the world, the news, we need more then ever to get into the Ho Ho Ho spirit and allow ourselves and friends to have joy, laughter, and get-togethers, share a sociable drink and delicious food, give our generosity and much, much more happiness and fun.
No lemon-suckers, no party-poopers, down with sour-pusses and crab apples!
You're the same rotten bunch that cry the blues that Vancouver's a no fun city. Get a grip Scrooge! Shame on you! Lets jingle our bells, be happy, be grateful, sing, rejoice and praise this wonderful Christmas season, for it comes only once per year.
–Peter Perpar
Mayors pass the buck with transit referendum
Are we so naive that we aren't up in arms against the referendum on transit funding? Don't we pay our mayors their high salaries to make these difficult decisions? The inevitable outcome will be that one of the four unpopular options will be chosen by the electorate and the subsequent unpopularity of it will be batted away by the mayors with: "Well, that's what you voted for". My suggestion is that no-one votes, we leave the decision up to the cowards we elected and they can then bear the consequent responsibility of their actions... As they are royally paid to do.
–Roger Watt
A liveable city no one can afford to live in
A recent televised news article informs us that people in apartments are now curtaining off spaces in their living rooms to accommodate a bed and renting out this space for $630 a month. Such a bargain, such a great way of life. We have gone from mini-apartments the size of a parking space renting for $425 a month in the '90s to this.
Why stop there? Our betters on council and in the development world could adopt Hong Kong's answer to housing and the laissez faire capitalism they espouse: Cages measuring six feet long, 30 inches deep, and 30 inches tall, stacked three high. This would give minimum wage earners, piece and sweatshop workers the opportunity to live in this now-wonderful world class city. What's all this fuss about our being one of the most liveable cities in the world?
–Victoria Joss
